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Author Jackson, Aaron J., 1981- author.

Title Worlds of care : the emotional lives of fathers caring for children with disabilities / Aaron J. Jackson.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  649.15 JACKSON    Check Shelf
Description x, 199 pages ; 23 cm.
Series California series in public anthropology
California series in public anthropology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The practice of care -- The depths of time : past becomings and habitable worlds -- Between bodies : the fleshy work of caregiving -- Conditions of possibility : fathering, masculinity, and moral (re)orientations -- Belonging and being-for-others -- The axiom of equality
Summary "Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are, even now, rather few and far between; rarer still is an ethnographic study, backed by personal experience, that delves deep into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday lives of men caring for children with major physical and intellectual disabilities, Worlds of Care undertakes an exploration of how men consider and shape their identities in the context of caregiving. Author Aaron J. Jackson uses a combination of personal experience, deep ethnographic research, and creative nonfiction to offer an evocative account of what is required for men to create habitable worlds and find some kind of "normal" when their circumstances render them as anything but. Through stories taken from fieldwork in North America as well as the author's own reflections on caring for his severely disabled son, Jackson highlights the embodied dimensions of caregiving and makes an argument about the nature of our caring relationships and the potential that care has to transform us and change our understanding of who we are and how we relate to others"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Fathers of children with disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Fathers of children with disabilities (OCoLC)fst01744524
Other Form: Online version: Jackson, Aaron J., 1981- Worlds of care Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520976955 (DLC) 2020037020
ISBN 9780520379855 (cloth)
0520379853 (cloth)
9780520976955 (ebook)
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